Bootc Meetings and Status Updates 
Jason Brooks reports
In the past two weeks of bootc initiative meetings, Neal Gompa (on Apr 1) raised the issue of building bootc images with kiwi (Meetbot Logs) and Robert Sturla (on Apr 8) opened a discussion on using bootc with non-rpm distros (Meetbot Logs)
Derived OS Releases 
Jason Brooks reports
On the Universal Blue discourse instance, Jorge Castro posted some really cool stats about how many contributors they have working on Universal Blue: Just how many of us are making this thing? - General - Universal Blue
Projects, Experiments, and Demos 
Jason Brooks reports
On Open Sourcerers, Dominik Bittl wrote about to use the bootc-powered RHEL Image Mode on AWS: How to use RHEL Image Mode on AWS – Open Sourcerers
Fabio Alessandro Locati blogged about installing Fedora bootc onto a Scaleway Dedibox instance by starting with a distro option supported by the service, and using podman to swap Fedora bootc into that initial distro’s place: Fedora on Scaleway Dedibox with bootc - (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog
Community Videos 
Jason Brooks reports
Over on Youtube, the Minneapolis Red Hat User Group posted a video of a talk from Ben Breard about the bootc-based Image Mode for RHEL: https://youtu.be/Go-fNdbXCKU
Bootc in the News 
Jason Brooks announces
On Cloud Native Now, Mike Vizard covered the Epoxy release of OpenStack, which “enables bootc container images that incorporate operating systems to now be directly deployed on bare metal machines using the Ironic infrastructure provisioning tool.” OpenInfra Foundation Brings Bootc Container Images to OpenStack - Cloud Native Now
Sean Michael Kerner covered the same release over at IT Pro Today: OpenStack Epoxy 2025.1 Expands VMware Migration, AI Performance
The latest issue of ADMIN magazine includes a story by Thorsten Scherf about how bootc can be used to build operating system images: bootc Images » ADMIN Magazine
On xda-developers.com, Anurag Singh wrote about how well the upstart bootc-based gaming distro Bazzite stacks up against the incumbent SteamOS: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-bazzite-better-than-steamos/
That’s all folks!
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See you next week, and be sure to stop by #bootc:fedoraproject.org to post your updates and hang out with the community!